Nvidia and AT&T Pull the Lid Off of “Project Denver” SuperPhone

At AT&T’s Developer Summit, the company, in conjunction with Motorola and Nvidia, announced an intriguing new 4G phone that combines higher data rates with some intriguing new docking properties.

Formerly code-named Project Denver, the new phone is named the Atrix 4G and sports nVidia’s dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a 4-inch screen, 1GB of system memory and 16GB of storage (expandable to 32GB).

The so-called “superphone” (AT&T’s phrasing, not ours) runs Android 2.2 and features two docking systems that allow it to function as 1) a home theater media server and 2) an almost fully-functioning laptop.

We’ll have more information on this phone as we get hands-on time with at CES tomorrow.

Comments

How many smartphones and tablets have been announced in the past year? This gimmick is getting old -- everybody leaps in with some revolutionary new feature, but in the end, almost none of them live up to their pre-launch hype.

1) Does it have wi-fi? If there's another rigged data plan forced on AT&T customers who own this phone, then it fails. The end.

2) 13.1-in notebook? Then what's the difference between this and a regular netbook? Performance? Doesn't seem like it...

3) The notebook dock is said to be very thin -- how thin? Like e-paper monitor and 1/2 in. thick keyboard thin? Or just a regular notebook size?

I tried to patent this concept when the first Android phone was released (it IS running a version of Linux after all) but because it was an improvement to an existing phone not one I created myself no patent for me... I took the home media server a step further and designed a dock system where you plug it in and boom! You have usb out ports, hdmi out, vga and dvi out, audio in and out, ect... just like a normal desktop. If the dock becomes universal across all phone platforms, then you could literally have your desktop in your pocket! (Kinda makes the cloud pointless) Take your phone to work or school, plug it in and there is your home desktop! It would run a copy of Android on the phone, plug it in and because you have wall power available, it automatically overclocks and runs a more desktop like version of the OS on the dvi, vga, or hdmi port...

I would have killed to be involved in this... Oh well! It sounds like they still have some improvements to get it to what I had in mind.